I think starting this year, I’m going to start reading a lot of poetry. The reason is that I want to read a lot of poetry to help with my lyric writing. Just more of my research material. I want to try to make my lyric writing a little more poetic instead of telling a story. I don’t really like “story-telling”, kind of songs anymore. I want to do research on how to write poetry. I’m also planning to start writing poems of my own just to start practicing. If I write songs that are a little more poetic, maybe listeners will start taking my songs a little more seriously. I think the storytelling thing in folk music is old and boring; I want nothing to do with that stuff anymore. I don’t like the Bob Dylan/Utah Phillips kind of songwriting, and I don’t want to be viewed as that for my music. I just want to make my songwriting a little bit different, next time around. I don’t like spoken-word storytelling songs and a lot of my earlier music is like that. I want to start making some actual songs with real singing and all that stuff. I’m working very hard.

Sorry, I haven’t posted the last few days. It’s just that the weather have been so nice out over the weekend — I’ve been doing better things, other than hanging on the computer. Sometimes I take a little break on blogging ’cause I just don’t care anymore and getting bored of the blog. I’ll only post things if it’s only worth posting, these days.

Kev